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East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
Hybrid
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Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Define and evolve enterprise standards for core data, metadata, data modeling, and data quality.
Drive consistent adoption of data standards across certified data products enterprise-wide.
Establish trusted, governed, and artificial intelligence-ready datasets that enable business value.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Associate Directors across data management domains.
Partner with data engineering and business teams to onboard and scale data products.
Oversee post-launch data operations, ensuring performance, stability, and governance compliance.
Maintain operational documentation, standards, reporting, and delivery performance metrics.
Monitor service levels, identify trends, and proactively address operational risks.
Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, vendors, and partners to achieve successful delivery outcomes.
Champion continuous improvement across the data product lifecycle and governance processes.
Essential Requirements
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred.
15+ years of data management or data architecture experience in complex organizations.
3+ years leading teams within a regulated industry environment.
Demonstrated ownership of an enterprise data model or CDM at scale, with formal domain/master-data governance.
Working fluency in ODCS, DCAT, SKOS, OWL/RDF, or equivalent semantic-web/data-contract standards.
Experience with a modern catalog/governance platform (Data Governance platform, Open Metadata, Atlan, Collibra, or Alation).
Familiarity with pharma commercial data sources (IQVIA Xponent/OneKey/Plantrak, Veeva) is a strong plus.
Proven people-leadership: hiring, coaching ADs, and managing distributed/vendor surge teams to deadlines.
Executive communication skills — able to translate architecture into board-ready narrative.
Desirable Requirements
Experience working with pharmaceutical commercial data sources, including IQVIA, Veeva, or similar platforms.
The salary for this position is expected to range between $185,500 and $344,500 per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.
Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a
variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
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EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Accessibility and reasonable accommodations
The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to us.reasonableaccommodations@novartis.com or call +1(877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Salary Range
$185,500.00 - $344,500.00
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